Still not too into the heads on that thing, but I'm liking the feel now that we see it in armor.
Well now, this is aiming to be an interesting day. Woken by a fire alarm, and now 100+ more pages.
Anything new besides an HD version of the Dragonflight logo and an armored variant of the humanoid dragon?
The world revamp dream will never die!
That's a good question. The philosophy seems to be to make every race start in the new starting zone, already members of their factions, yet the Drakthyr would have to join during the plot of this expansion, or at least the beginning. Unless they're unlockable – a bad idea for a non-Allied Race, given that's what defines an Allied Race and was also generally poorly-received – it would be awkward for them to just appear out of nowhere when they start with no idea how they came to be or joined their faction.
Does look better this way, but I think it may be a boss/npc model. I think that's also possibly the case for the ones we saw, too, though. It seems like they may have used an NPC model as a placeholder for the creation screen, which could actually explain why it doesn't render armor.
At the end of the day, the new race hardly matters to me. I have been playing the very same night elf since vanilla lol.